> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>>
>> > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ?
>> > >
>> > I put all the code into CVS, and Yura is making the official patch now.
>>
>> Since 2.4.0 final should fix a few i/o performance issues
>> (particuarly under heavy write loads), a quick few ext2 vs.
>> reiserfs benchmarks would make very interesting reading ;-)
>
> An easy way to gain a performance edge on ext2 would
> be to do proper write clustering in the reiserfs
> ->writepage() function... </hint>
>
;-)
The current 2.4 code has lots of room for tuning, since I've been trying to
keep it clean/stable for now (and our dbench numbers show it). The first
optimization is tuning for reiserfs_get_block, I think writepage clustering
will be easier (and more beneficial) if we work out the buffer.c changes
I've been posting.
I also want to change the log block allocation a bit, so the log blocks are
allocated as the transaction progresses, instead of all at the end. I
think that will make us much more VM friendly, and let me get rid of the
inode writing kludges. It'll be a busy weekend ;-)
-chris
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